Fresh Kitchen

October 2014 Updated November 2015Did you ever wish for a restaurant that offered healthy and low calorie foods that don't sacrifice flavors? Welcome to Fresh Kitchen, a chain of cafe restaurants that focus on foods that are both healthy and delicious.eLuna Revisits Fresh Kitchen Herzlia

Getting There: Park in the orange zone, in the underground parking. The restaurant is near Elevator #3 level zero. The lower level (-3) usually has spaces.

The menu at Fresh Kitchen was developed by chefs and dieticians. It features a great variety of dishes including your favorite pasta dishes, unique salads packed with vitamins and minerals, and sandwiches made from bread rich in grains and iron. There is a great selection of breakfasts, organic coffee, and healthy desserts baked daily.

About the Fresh Kitchen Menu

The menu at Fresh Kitchen will satisfy folks adhering to different diets. Menu items suit vegan, vegetarian, gluten free, natural, pregnant and breast feeding women, nutritious, low calorie (no more than 500) The menu offers details of the nutritional value per serving. These are easily identified by color circles next to each entry.

Red Shakshuka is a healthy way to begin the day. This breakfast is nutritious, low calorie and vegetarian. It is served together with salad, bread calzone and either fresh juice or a hot drink.

Have your sandwich the way you like it, from the ingredients on the menu: eggs, tuna, Norwegian salmon, goat cheese, vegetarian shwarma, and more.

For a lunch or dinner, Fresh offers a selection of rice, pasta and fish platters. The restaurant recommends the salmon skewers and the Thailand pasta.

A selection of delicious yet healthy desserts will complete this culinary adventure.
Check out the desserts corner and enjoy.

eLuna Visits Fresh Kitchen Restaurant Herzlia. November 2015 eLuna revisited Fresh Kitchen Herzlia. The restaurant is on the ground level of the Arena Mall, facing the boat marina. There is both indoor and outdoor seating. In nice weather, the outdoor seating is a must. The restaurant also has a coral seating area indoors, near the restaurant counter.

Arena is a large mall with many good restaurants. I believe that this is the only kosher mehadrin restaurant in the mall. Fresh Kitchen is definitely the only restaurant in the mall that emphasizes good healthy food at reasonable prices.

The Fresh Kitchen menu (Hebrew and English) offers a good number of breakfast alternatives. For an evening meal the restaurant offers some pasta dishes, mains including quiche, fish dishes, and a very large selection of salads. We settled on a soup and one of the higher end salads. The sweet potato soup - the soup of the day- was hot and tasty. I found it a bit peppery but that suited my companion's preference.

The menu posts the calorie value for each of the salads and for many of the other dishes. I was surprised to learn that our string bean and mushroom salad with tofu was 500 calories. Surprised, till I saw the size of the portion. This is a huge salad that can easily be shared. In fact sharing a salad and another main course would be a good strategy for dining there. But note that many main dishes are served with a small salad, and you would not need two salads. Check it out.

The desserts are one of the calling cards of this heath-focused restaurant. Go figure it. We didn't
indulge, but it took a lot of will-power to say no. Even without a sweet end to the meal, we had a nice time at Fresh Kitchen. The food was tasty, the service was efficient and helpful and the restaurant was well run. We were especially happy to learn, in a conversation with the owner, that eLuna brings this restaurant a lot of guests. When our discerning eLuna members favor a restaurant, which is a sure sign that it is a quality dining experience.

Our bill for a soup and a salad came to 82 shekels. The restaurant honored our eLuna discount, to which we added 15% for the waitress, and paid with a credit card. Couldn't have been easier.